We're living interesting times indeed...

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Three massive Jovians around bright orange giants:

• 14 Andromedae b
• 6 Lyncis b
• 81 Ceti b

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Has this been mentioned here before? Seems to be old news...

Solar System's 'look-alike' found

Very old news. He suggests that there very well "could" be other stars out there that "might" host terrestrial planets..

Exciting, but let's not get too optimistic on this. Maybe it is smaller than most other exoplanets but not something that will be mentioned in the news (an exoplanet that was great news a year or two years ago) or it could simply be a mistaking (i guess those kind of things still happens and the non-existing exoplanet keeps 'its' name).

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Corot-Exo-4b has a 9 day period around a star similar to the Sun (though they did not say its color ), AND the rotation rate matches the orbital period! It ain't that big a planet for a tidal lock. This one is quite interesting, right?

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

I think that's CoRot. The star is F0V. The period and the rotation are given as 9.20205 +/- 0.00037 and 8.87 +/- 1.12 days respectively, so synchronicity is not a lock.

Yet!

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Thanks, I took the article too literally.

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Interesting in what way? Do you consider planets with tidal lock more likely to have life than other planets? Guess almost tidal locked planets are even more unlikely to have life than tidal locked planets.

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That the planet is tidally locked to the star is an assumption; that the star is tidally locked to the planet is the observation (close enough), and it is the latter that is remarkable.

Ah ok, didn't read that the first time. Yes, that sounds interesting.

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Looks like the detection was spurious. The RV signal can be explained by starspots which are abundant in young and magnetically active stars like TW Hya.

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I'm sick of gas giants being discovered yearly. Don't get me wrong, I really like gas giants because they are usually gorgeous. But I'm just more interested in terrestrial planets - as, I'm sure, you all are. Is there any possibility that the Kepler Telescope discovers more rocky planets orbiting distant stars?

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Undoubtedly; I'm hoping Kepler will scoop COROT on this point, all the more so for being more optimised for planetary transit photometry.

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strong evidence for a mass 8.4 Mearth planet, in a quasi-circular orbit and at the period of 8.78 days around Gliese 176. Not that interesting for exobiologists: a=0.066, L=0.022 so it receives over 5 times the starlight that Earth does.

@ Fiery Phoenix
I might be wrong, but i have an idea that most if not all exoplanet hunters are now looking for other planets than just regular gas giants. Most of them are probably searching areas where we could find Earth 2 whilst others are looking for planets that may be different than Earth but in the Green Zone. Some are looking for the greatest gas giant to find the distinction between gas giants and brown dwarfs and some are searching for all types of planets in a star system already known to find the maximum number of planets in one solar system. All of these exoplanet hunters have one thing in common - they all find gas giants more or less by accident while searching for their particular interesting exoplanets. But when they find one of these planets they don't just leave it for good but spend time to find out as much as possible anyway.

Can't say i know this is how it's done for sure, but that's the idea i've always had.

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You're probably correct. I would say the same thing. They basically just happen to come across the gas giants while searching for a second Earth - more or less. Anyway, the Kepler mission is on the way.

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